James Joyce's Ulysses Collection:
Photograph of 7 Eccles Street

In the fourth chapter of Joyce’s Ulysses, the reader meets Leopold Bloom, a middle-aged advertising salesman who is Joyce’s modern equivalent of Odysseus. In these pages, Bloom makes tea and toast for his wife, Molly, then leaves the house to get a kidney for his own breakfast.

In 1950, a Harvard archaeology professor named Phil Phillips went to Dublin to photograph sites mentioned in Joyce’s book. He captured one of the only known photographs of 7 Eccles St.—the Blooms’ fictional home—as an inhabited house.

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